A SiteMinder User Directory object allows you to configure which attribute it will use to search an LDAP directory when a user tries to authenticate.  But there is no place in there to create a complex LDAP query that uses … Read more →

Overview SiteMinder supports OpenLDAP for use as a Policy Store. OpenLDAP provides a freely available, replicated directory that can be used as a redundant store for SiteMinder’s configuration information. Unfortunately, the SiteMinder documentation covering how to configure OpenLDAP is at … Read more →

Note: Portions of this post come from details in the SiteMinder Policy Server Configuration and User Context Gateway Guides Copyright © by CA Technologies. Overview: In a Windows network, a security context defines a user’s identity and authentication information. Web applications … Read more →

Overview: SiteMinder provides federation capabilities for SAML (and other protocols). SiteMinder’s federation capabilities are accessed through a set of web services installed with the Web Agent Option Pack. The federation web service throws a 500 error instead of automatically redirecting … Read more →

So, you spent all this time getting SiteMinder integrated with your applications in Dev.  Now it’s time to move your policies to QA and then on to Production. You can see it now, hours of work to manually reenter everything … Read more →